Motivational Quotes on Bernard de Fontenelle

Motivational Quotes on Bernard de Fontenelle:- Bernard de Fontenelle, also called Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle, was a French author and an influential member of three of the academies of the Institut de France.

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, a French scientific writer, was born on11 Feb1657 in France. And Died on 9 January 1757. Fontenelle published a rather remarkable book, Entretiens sure pluralité des Mondes, or Conversations on a Plurality of Worlds.

Motivational Quotes on Bernard de Fontenelle:-

“Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.”

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‘If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.”

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“Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.”

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“To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.”

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“If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.”

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“I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.”

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“It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.”

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“A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.”

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“It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.”

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“A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.”

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“An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.”

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“Modesty in women has two special advantages, it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.”

Best Motivational Quotes on Bernard de Fontenelle:-

“Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.”

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“People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them and are quite surprised to have done them.”

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“Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison to the infinite extent of nature!”

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“Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty, but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.”

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“Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.”

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“There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music, and women.”

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Top 10 Motivational Quotes on Bernard de Fontenelle:-

“Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.”

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“I have lived one hundred years, and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.”

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“Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it’s fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.”

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“Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both, and a German will kill herself.”

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“Modesty in women has two special advantages, it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.”

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“Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.”

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“Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?”

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“A philosopher sees the Earth as a large planet, traveling through the heavens, covered with fools.”

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“A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.”

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“The art of flying has only just been born; it will be perfected, and someday we’ll go to the Moon.”

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